The story was proposed by 1904 as the origin of the word "lynch". Ī 17th-century legend of James Lynch fitz Stephen, who was Mayor of Galway in Ireland in 1493, says that when his son was convicted of murder, the mayor hanged him from his own house. While Edgar Allan Poe claimed that he found this document, it was probably a hoax. William Lynch from Virginia claimed that the phrase was first used in a 1780 compact signed by him and his neighbors in Pittsylvania County. He was accused, however, of ethnic prejudice in his abuse of Welsh miners. He acquitted Black people accused of murder on three occasions.
This action by the Congress provoked controversy, and it was in connection with this that the term Lynch law, meaning the assumption of extrajudicial authority, came into common parlance in the United States. Lynch was concerned that he might face legal action from one or more of those whom he had imprisoned, notwithstanding that the Patriots had won the war.
Subsequently, Lynch prevailed upon his friends in the Congress of the Confederation to pass a law that exonerated him and his associates from wrongdoing. Although he lacked proper jurisdiction for detaining these persons, he claimed this right by arguing wartime necessity.
Ĭharles Lynch was a Virginia Quaker, : 23 ff planter, and Patriot who headed a county court in Virginia which imprisoned Loyalists during the American revolutionary war, occasionally imprisoning them for up to a year. In 1782, Charles Lynch wrote that his assistant had administered Lynch's law to Tories "for Dealing with the negroes &c". There is no evidence that death was imposed as a punishment by either of the two men. Charles Lynch is more likely to have coined the phrase, as he was known to have used the term in 1782, while William Lynch is not known to have used the term until much later. Two Americans during this era are generally credited for coining the phrase: Charles Lynch (1736–1796) and William Lynch (1742–1820), both of whom lived in Virginia in the 1780s.
The verb comes from the phrase Lynch Law, a term for a punishment without trial. The origins of the word lynch are obscure, but it likely originated during the American Revolution. 2.1.1 Anti-lynching legislation and the Civil Rights Movement.
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